When you’re doing scientific research, one very good idea would be to talk to the locals about what you’re doing and get some facts from them.
Not so for the eco-socialist slouches at OSU
“Dead Zones” off coast tell no tales
The eerie “dead zones” that suffocated marine life off the Oregon coast in recent summers are unlike anything recorded over the past 50 years and could be driven by stronger winds that might reflect global warming trends.
That’s the new conclusion published in the national journal Science today by an Oregon State University team that has tracked conditions as summer oxygen levels in the coastal ocean plummeted — falling to zero in 2006.
Undersea video cameras that summer revealed marine graveyards full of dead crabs, starfish and other life. Some species still have not returned to those areas, said Francis Chan, a marine ecologist at OSU and the lead author of the new research.
Oooh! Frightening! Scary! Stop driving your car and flushing the toilet! The oceans are dying! Blah Blah, blah. Blah blah.
From the same article
But Terry Thompson, a Lincoln County commissioner and fisherman, said he remains skeptical that the dead zones OSU has documented are all that different from what fishermen have noticed along the coast for years.
“There’s no question that two years ago it was very severe, but I want to see more data,” he said. “Fishermen have known for years that you don’t fish in that area in the summer. We just didn’t go there.”
Ooopsie.
Stupid locals. Always fuckin’ up their pseudo science.
Hey Oregonians, you gonna ask for your money back? If I were one of those student’s parents I know I would be for cramming bullshit witchdoctory down my kid’s throat.
Found @ Some Poor Schmuck